It is a 2½-story structure, built with a wooden frame and finished in red brick.

A gabled ell projects forward from the right side of the central block, and a single-story portico shelters the entrance immediately to its left.

Dormers are finished in stuccoed half-timbering typical of the Tudor Revival style, and diamond-pane casement windows, another element of the style, are widely used, although some have been replaced by modern sash windows.

[2] Designed by the Boston firm of Hutchins & French and completed in 1923, it is Manchester's finest period Tudor Revival house.

It was built for William Parker Straw, the then-principal executive on site of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the city's largest employer.